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Your fleet supports your business.
Keep it from becoming a liability.

Construction, agriculture, utilities, distribution, services — your trucks serve the work, but the federal safety rules still apply to them. Avowant keeps every record organized and ready to prove, without building a compliance department.

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Your job is hard to do right.

Not because any one piece is difficult — because there are hundreds of them, each expiring on its own clock, and none of them will remind you.

For every driver

Commercial driver's license (CDL) — with the right endorsements
Medical examiner's certificate (§391.45)
Motor Vehicle Record (MVR), pulled and reviewed annually (§391.25)
Annual review of driving record, with a documented supervisor consult
Drug & alcohol program: random pool, Clearinghouse queries (Parts 382/40)
Driver qualification (DQ) file — a dozen dated components (Part 391)
Road test or equivalent certificate
Employment verification from previous employers

For every truck and trailer

Registration and apportioned plates
Annual inspection (§396.17) — by a qualified inspector (§396.19/.25)
Driver vehicle inspection reports (§396.11)
Preventive maintenance intervals
Repair records tied to the defects that prompted them
Accident and roadside-inspection history

For the company

MCS-150 biennial update
Unified Carrier Registration (UCR)
IFTA and IRP filings
Operating authority in good standing
Insurance filings on record with FMCSA
Accident register
Drug & alcohol policy, and a Designated Employer Representative (DER)

Thirty drivers and twenty-five trucks is more than two hundred dated obligations a year — roughly one for every business day. And that's before a single roadside inspection, corrective action, or new hire.

Nothing here is optional, and none of it announces itself. Gaps surface in the venues where they cost the most: a new-entrant audit, an insurance renewal, or discovery after a crash.

So who owns all of this?

Does it land on a safety manager who is already stretched?

Or — if the fleet supports your real business: construction, agriculture, distribution, utilities, energy — does it fall to whoever inherited “the DOT stuff”?

You can hire an experienced safety and compliance manager — or more support staff — to close the gaps. Or you can codify the process with Avowant.

Avowant turns the work into a structured queue and takes the tedium out of it — the date-chasing, the data entry, the paper-hunting. Your people spend that time on work that actually moves safety: coaching drivers, fixing root causes, staying audit-ready.

Structured

Every obligation is a dated item in a queue, not something someone has to remember

Transferable

New staff step into a working program on day one — everything is there, current, and organized

Reviewable

An owner can see where the program stands without becoming an expert

AI vision reads the documents — licenses, medical cards, inspection reports — extracts the data, and files it against the right driver or truck. Your staff confirm instead of type.

You know exactly where you stand.

Most fleets don't — not because they're careless, but because nothing ever told them. Two screens answer it.

What should I do next?

Compliance Center

Everything coming due across drivers, equipment, and the company — on one screen, sorted by urgency. Renew, notify, and file without leaving the page. It is the worklist that replaces the wall calendar, the spreadsheet, and the sticky notes.

If they audited me tomorrow, what fails?

Audit Gap Report

A 0–100 readiness score across thirteen weighted categories, scored the way an auditor would look at you — with every finding deep-linked to the screen that fixes it. Snapshotted monthly, so you can watch the line move.

An open critical finding caps your score at 60. Avowant would rather show you an uncomfortable number than a flattering one — a readiness score you can't trust is worse than no score at all.

And you can prove it to anyone who asks.

Auditors, underwriters, and attorneys don't take your word for it. They read documents. Avowant compiles them from the records you already keep.

When the audit notice arrives

A new-entrant audit or compliance review usually means weeks of assembling files under a deadline, hoping nothing is missing.

The Audit Compiler

Enter the notice date. Avowant calculates the correct FMCSA lookback windows, pulls the driver and equipment records that fall inside them, and assembles the response package section by section — with the gaps named plainly, so nothing is discovered by the auditor first.

When the insurance renewal comes

Truck insurance reached a record $0.102 per mile in 2024 after a 12.5% spike the year before,^[2] and excess coverage rates have jumped more than 75%.^[3] Assurances don't move a quote. Dated records do.

The Insurance Review report

One click compiles your trailing period into an underwriter-facing dossier — inspection history, corrective-action follow-through, maintenance records, and year-over-year movement. You walk in with evidence instead of adjectives.

When a driver gets inspected

A roadside inspection with violations starts a clock: the certified corrective response is required, and an unclosed one is its own finding later.

Corrective Action Forms (CAFs), closed and signed

Avowant reads the inspection, splits driver violations from equipment defects, and opens the corrective actions and work orders each one requires — gating closure on the signed certification §396.9(d) asks for. Every remediation ends up documented and dated.

The best inspection is the one with nothing to write up. Drivers run their pre-trip from a phone — a QR code, no app, no login — and what they find becomes a work order before it becomes a violation. Catching a defect in your yard costs a repair. Catching it at a scale house costs a repair, a violation, and a mark on your record.

Do your customers ask how your fleet is run?

When a bid or a safety prequalification asks about your drivers and equipment, Avowant gives you dated records to show — audit readiness, inspection history, corrective actions closed, and the drivers you've recognized for doing it right.

See where your fleet stands

We'll walk you through Avowant with a fully loaded demo fleet, ending with the Audit Gap Report.